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Wickedness
When I talk about “wickedness,” I have in view the sustained intent to do as much damage – physical, material, emotional, social, work-related and spiritual – as can safely be done by the person who acts wickedly. Oddly enough, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, appearing deceptively harmless, appearing deceptively innocent, bad actors as misunderstood, causing a driving accident, causing dangerous distress, concealing experiences with evil, crime contemplated with coverup, divorcing a dangerous husband, doing deliberate damage, evil and denial, evil discounted as displacement, experiences of evil, God not a lofty abstraction, God not above the battle, God with realistic advice, harmful intent, harmful intent disguised, intentionally upsetting a driver, intimidated G.I. bride, malice disguised as sincerity, nonfiction life story, personal God vs Spinozistic God, philosophers on evil, premeditated coverup, researching evil, social suppression of evil as topic, spoiling one’s story, taking personal life seriously, taking philosophy seriously, the feel of wickedness, the look of wickedness, the smell of wickedness, wickedness, wickedness and denial, wickedness and therapy, wickedness as intelligent harmdoing, wickedness as spoiling the victim’s story, wickedness discounted as compensatory, wickedness not a displacement, wickedness psychologized away, wickedness targeting personal life, wickedness treated as displacement, wickedness treated therapeutically, witnesses to evil
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